Rotunda vol 37, no 17 april 28, 1958

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Attend Longwood College's First Festival Of Fine Arts This Week

lUe VOLUME XXXVII

Longwood College, Farmville, Va., April 23, 1958

No. 17

Arts Festival Features Dance Tonight The Festival of Fine Aits, now under way at Longntinue for four remaining performances. Tot a modern dance concert will lie presented in Jarman auditorium. Thursday, April 24, a piano recital assisted by the flute will in- presented. Three One-aet plays presented i> Alpha Psi Omega will highlight Friday's activities; and on Saturr1 ert hv the Lonprwond College choir and the Uni rsity o \ r i flee club will conclude the week's events.

Parsons To Head SIPA Convention B] H l>v BCKSTROM Jo Arm ;i Irishman from Richmond will pn the twenty-ninth annual convention of 'he Southern c Delation thl I, The convention will be : campus u( Washington and Lee in Lexington. With any high school or preparatory school in the South Invited rUdpata in the convention, its purpose la to unite in a common organization aeholastle Journalists, Panel discussions and short c MITOSS will he held fol ma services tor 'In Ugh school publications to Inform Mum of their jobs • Jo Ann. being CO-edltOf of the Manchester High School The Cmmniiniqiie. when elected to the office of president for the ISM ■ Hiion. is the second Rlrl president in Its twenty-elRht year history. "It Is mostly an honorary position, and I am very pleased that I was elected to serve as president for the 1958 session. I am looking forward to presiding over the convention this week end." Jo Ann's duties at the convention will be to open It formally on the twenty-fifth, serve on the floor committee for the convention dance, interview candidates for president for 1958-59. assist at the voting booth, and Introduce the new student president at the awards banquet. Becoming very active on The Kotundn, Jo Ann has assumed the position of assistant desk editor for the cominR year as well as being a reporter. She Is also a member of the Richmond Club and Cotillion Club. Dr. John C. Forbes, professor of biochemistry at the Mi died College of Virginia and presidentelect of the Virginia Academy of Science, will five a lecture Thursday, April 24, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 105. Stevens Hall. His topic will be "Research on AlcoholIsm." This lecture Is sponsored by Lynchos Society, the Mathematics and Science honorary organization. All interested persons are invited to attend.

ORCHESIS MEMBERS, left to right. Carol Lash. Tweety Lambiotte, Connie Goodman, rehearse for T.ittrrns of Forces," one of the dance numbers to be givrn tonight.

College Displays Varied Art Works Art Students Show Talent Many Longwood students are exhibiting their own work during this we< k of the Festival of Fine Arts wlr.ch ends Saturday, April 26. Among the art department displays may be found pottery, enamels, chalks, water colors, oils, textile designs, mosaics, and string constructions. Students with pottery on display an H I Qowa: Martha Sue Clark, Walter Anderson. Jr.. Mary Ann Foster. Elaine Johnson. Mary Archer Rcames. La Verne Collier, and Addie Richardson. In the enamels section Is work by Amanda Dillon, Sue Jett, Carol Lash. Madeline Bailey, Ellen Callaway. Peggy Dlckerson, Delores Fentre.ss, Elizabeth Fcntress, Sara Parrott. Tae Wamsley. Judy A n f l D, Claude Allard, Jr., and Nancie Morton. Girls with work in drawing and composition are Martha Sue Clark, Jacqui Dtetz. Carol I.assiter. Addle Rlcha^-dsonrcia^buTagan: Phyllis Brldgeforth. and Barbara Bishop, Having crafts-work in the exhibit are Nan Brimmer. Clara Dunagan,

Attention students! Is your artistic taste typical of Longwood? Vole for your favorite picture by Horace Day. A ballot box is located in .l.ii-in.HI lobby this week near his exhibit. The winning picture may be purchased by the college.

Faculty Gives Art Exhibit

By ELENA VINOS (Editor's note: Elena Vinos. Spanish informant from Mexico, plans to open an art gallery In the future and is also an artist herself. The following Is a report of the faculty art exhibition now on display in the browsing room of the library. Works displayed here are by Miss Virginia Bedford. Chairman of the Art Department, Mrs. Janice Lemon, and Miss Annie Lee By CHERRY GORHAM Ross.) The dignified yet personable Miss Virginia Bedford has exHorace Day, outstanding Virginia hibited at the Virginia Museum In artist, has contributed an exhibit of Richmond, works in silver and 14 oil paintings as a part of the Jewelry; at the Randolph-Macon Fine Arts Festival. Seen in Jarman Women'8 College In Lynchburg, an Lobby, they constitute his first one- invitation show of college faculty man show on this campus, and in- In the state; at the Southeastern clude a group of paintings from his College Faculty exhibition; In display at the Bodley Gallery in Greensboro; and three times at New York. Longwood College. Mr. Day. accompanied by his In this exhibition Miss Bedford *&■ brought :his paintings to Long- has works in pottery and enamels made with wood last Thursday, when he The pottery was Proved * .»_» "most interesting earthenware and stone ware. Some person to interview. of them are hand built and some Usually painting portraits and put on a potter's wheel. Sin landscapes, the artist's most typical ashtrays, flower pots and i>< I are those of Virginia and There stands up a vei-y styll/i the CaroUnaa. He remarked. "I with a long neck that makes mi1 like to think of Virginia and the think of the ancient ones. my backyard." He The enamels are powdered added, though generally In- paints fused by ! I v when lie reworks a picture,! obtained by metal oxides added t it mav take as much as a year of [ the powdi i glafJ Some of ths eff-and-on work to satisfactorily shapes arc spun forms and some complete It. free forms; meaning thai In addition to oils, paints, water with a flat p I r and and wash drawings, he with a wood hamthat he I medium mer. Mrs. Janice l.inion according to the subject n However when he is on trips he M Janlo Lemon is list a contemporar-. ter colors most I M\ |fj Day would like to by tin | m of paint half the Urns and devote the Art in New York City. She has half to teaching. He said thai been exhlb She has had four ON it is Important for an i to paint some saoll day He en- shows in the state i f Vlrgii I In Norfolk, i paint has exhibited

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"An Evening of Dance' will l>e id tonight at 8 p.m. in The first portion of the program Jarman Hall by OrchesLs, honorary will include Sonata number 2 in E dance society and the pbj Flat For Mule and Piano in three education department. Mrs Emily movements by J. S. Bach. Mr. UrK. Landrum, associate professor of ben will then present by F. Chopin physical education, is the director Sonata in B Flat Minor. Opus numof the program and faculty sponsor ber :)."> in four movements. After of Orchcsis intermission. 'Interine/./o, Opus All dance work presented has I UK, Number I" by J. Brahms will evolved from actual work. Featured be presented, This will be followed modern d a n c e numbers Include by Two Rhapsodies. Opus 79. Num'; itfc rni if F" i beri 1 and 2: B Minor and G Minor. and "Flora and Fair Concluding the evenings perform"Imprints" is set against a sky- ance will be "Capriccio In F Minor. line backdrop with the Naive mov- Opus 2H" by E. von Dohnanyi. ing through the first impression of Mr. Urben holds an advanced a great city and becoming part of Certificate in Music Education the onmshlng crowd. The scene from the University of Illinois, an then shifts to figures in the night M. M. degree from Indiana Uniof the city. "Patterns of Forces" versity, a B.M. from the University uses a rope as a unifying element. of Illinois and from the ConservaThe theme depits a struggle of any tory of Music of the College of group In which Individuals vie with the Pacific. one another for supremacy. "Flora Dr. Stlllwell has studied under and Fauna" centers around Inde- John Wummej-, first flutist In the terminate figures awakening in a New Vork Philharmonic Orchestra, dream world fantasy. Other num- and M. Wittgenstein of CBS. A bers Include "Shaker Suite," biologist, he holds the Ph. D. and "Within Ourselves." "Grief," "Two M. A. decree from Duke University Nocturnes," "Impressions" and and the A.B. from Wagner Luthern College In New Vork. "Three Blind Mice." Evening of Plays Piano and Flute Concert Thursday's piano concert will be The fifth event of the week long presented by Walter E. Urben. as- Festival of Fine Arts will be the sistant professor of music and Friday evening presentation of an piano lnsturctor. He will be as- Evening of Plays. Presented by sisted on the flute by Edgar F. Alpha Psl Omega, honorary draStlllwell, associate biology profes- matics fraternity, the three one-act plays will be "A Boy With a Cart." sor. by Christopher Fry, "Overtones" Students will register for clas- by Alice Gertenberg, and "Overses next year according to num- ruled" by George Bernard Shaw. "A Boy With a Cart" will be bers which they will draw for this directed by Mr. David W. Wiley, an purpose. assistant professor of speech and The sophomore class will draw (liama at Longwood. He will he their respective numbers and reg- assisted In directing by Molly ister for classes April 25 between I Workman. "Overtones" will be two and five p.m. in the small directed by Donna Boone and auditorium. All sophomores will "Overruled" will be directed by be excused from classes from 2 Workman. These productions p.m. on, to rettis'' i are under the overall direcUon of Freshmen will register for clas- j David Wilev ses May 1. from one to five pjn I.. C.-U. Va. Joint < ..m-rrt in the same manner and will be Concluding the week's events will excused from all afternoon clas- he ,i Joint choral concert presented ses on this day. by the University of Virginia glee (Continued on page 3i

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M \l II It I Kill \ right i is MsMsi by Kdgar Stlllwell in rehearsal for tomorrow evening s concert.


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